Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 30 at 5:00 pm PT
Amazon is expected to report a giant fourth quarter tomorrow, but the results couldn’t be more different from Apple’s monstrous fourth-quarter results reported last week.
Peter Kafka in Media on October 28, 2011 at 5:52 am PT
Depending on who you ask, the ad market is holding steady, or growing more slowly than predicted, or maybe something a little more dire.
Kara Swisher in News on July 21, 2011 at 7:05 am PT
Yahoo — which turned in yet another disappointing quarter on Tuesday, but with all
new excuses for the continuing decline in revenue — is now getting toasted by Wall Street.
That would be the marshmallow — and not the champagne — kind.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on March 29, 2011 at 11:26 am PT
With iPad 2 hopefuls still queuing outside Apple stores each morning, more than two weeks after the device’s U.S. launch, and international demand causing widespread stock-outs abroad, analysts who follow Apple are scrambling to adjust their iPad sales and earnings-per-share estimates. The latest to do so is Needham’s Charlie Wolf, who today raised his 2011 iPad sales forecast to 30 million units from 20 million.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on February 10, 2011 at 9:25 am PT
After the nearly interminable buildup to the iPhone’s launch on Verizon–the years of anticipation, rumors and speculation–you’d think eager buyers would be camping out in front of their local Apple Store and that Verizon stores would literally be overrun with frustrated AT&T iPhone users looking for relief. But evidently that’s not the case.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on February 9, 2011 at 1:15 pm PT
Air pockets have been transformed into “a period of transition” for CEO John Chambers.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on February 7, 2011 at 8:18 am PT
With the hard launch of the CDMA iPhone at Verizon now just three days away, analysts are tweaking their sales forecasts to reflect its impact. The latest to issue an upward revision: Susquehanna’s Jeff Fidacaro, who raised his price target on Apple this morning to reflect strong presale demand for the Verizon iPhone and a significant increase in its production.
John Paczkowski in News on January 20, 2011 at 11:17 am PT
In need of a chuckle? Take a look at Wall Street’s first-year iPad sales forecasts. They ranged from 1.1 million at their most conservative to 7 million at their most bullish, and averaged out at 3.3 million. Which is laughably short of the 14.8 million iPads Apple ended up selling in 2010.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 13, 2011 at 4:44 pm PT
Microsoft’s Xbox dominated the charts at the end of 2010, despite year-over-year revenue declines for both videogame hardware and software.
